On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott's offices sent out a news release that declared, "Gov. Scott Announces Anthem Education Expansion in Fort Lauderdale, 70 New Jobs."
The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
“Private universities in Dubai recorded a 12 per cent increase in student enrolment in the last year, part of an 11 per cent increase in higher education enrollment as a whole,” said Dr Abdulla Al Karam, director general of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), in a 2013 report on Dubai’s higher education sector.
The for-profit education industry is becoming a contrarian hotbed after the Department of Education's initial round of rule-making for the industry was not as strict as many investors had anticipated. However, the companies' reliance on Title IV funding is sure to sink them in the long run.
Fewer students are paying the full sticker price at private nonprofit colleges than ever before, with the average freshman getting half of his or her tuition and fees covered by the school, according to a new study released Monday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The number of students committing to private colleges is declining due to tuition spikes. In order to keep their classrooms full, private schools are offering more financial assistance to students.
But in Augusta, it’s the for-profit private schools that are raking in taxpayer dollars, charging a tuition that in some cases is five times higher than the area’s larger public universities and colleges.
The 'Forum for Fairness in Education' has decided to file a contempt case against the state government for violating the apex court's order on private medical and dental college seats. The SC directive states that private medical and dental colleges have to surrender vacant seats to the government after the second round of admission. The government can allot these seats to meritorious candidates.
Private medical colleges in the state have threatened not to undertake fresh admissions unless fee is hiked for the block period 2013-2016 is carried out in a manner that is commensurate with the expenditure they are bearing on each student. Interestingly, the demand comes ahead of the engineering and medical admission exam (Eamcet) is slated to be held on May 10.
Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after years of relentless tuition increases, are offering record financial assistance to keep classrooms full.
Faced with a growing number of families struggling to cover college costs, private colleges and universities are dispensing college scholarship awards at record levels.
Northwestern College will start going by a more accurate name this summer, its leaders say. The 110-year-old Christian school will become the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in July.
The result is that poorer families face a chasm between what they can afford and what they are being charged. Nine of 10 private colleges charge students whose families earn $30,000 or less a net price of more than $10,000; three of five charge those students more than $15,000.
A national study singled out the University of Miami for not giving enough financial aid to low-income students while shifting most of its scholarship dollars to high-achieving students with higher family incomes.
A Parliamentary panel has criticised the University Grants Commission (UGC) for its delay in examining whether private universities are functioning in accordance with the UGC Act.
The Ministry of Education is taking measures to close the private, Russian-language university ECOMEN, which it says has provided paid-for diplomas in both Estonia and the Czech Republic.
Private Universities in Kenya receive no funding from the government for running expenses. They rely on tuition fees to meet recurrent and developmental costs.
The minister of Higher Education, Adao do Nascimetno today in Kuito, Bie, hailed the initiative and efforts of institutions that want to boost higher education in the province, as they will contribute to local development.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, exhorted on Saturday in the central Huambo province the private higher education institutions of this region to increase their performance, aiming to promote the quality of scientific and technology training.
Small cap for-profit education stock Career Education Corp. (CECO) has one big advantage over both public and private schools plus it may have made a key reversal on the charts.
According to Private Universities Act 2006, many international-level private colleges are to be set up in Gurgaon, plans for which are in the pipeline and are expected to materialize soon. Land has been allocated in sectors 51 and 68 for setting up of educational institutes.
A few elite institutions at both the grade-school and college levels are doing better than ever. But their health conceals the collapse of private-sector options in the U.S.
Seats in Intermediate colleges are all set to double to 44 lakh in the state with government inviting private institutions to set up new ones at a time when various stakeholders, including the state-run institutes have sought a ban on sanction of new colleges.
Even as the technical and professional education sector in the State is suffering from a crisis of lack of students, Think Tank Odisha, an advocacy group chaired by former Chief Secretary S B Mishra, has called for slashing of seats in the private colleges.
Many private medical colleges have stated that they will not be able to accept NEET-PG results for admissions. Admissions for private medical entrance exam tests may be declared today. A lot of private medical colleges were opposed to the introduction of a single medical entrance test.
In order to safeguard students’ interests, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed private medical colleges and a consortium of colleges across the country to declare the results of entrance examinations they conducted and on that basis make admissions to postgraduate, MBBS and dental courses for 2013-14.
With no clarity on the share of government quota seats for MBA and MCA this year, the Karnataka Private Postgraduate Colleges’ Association (KPPGCA) on Wednesday decided to conduct Karnataka Management Aptitude Test (KMAT) on July 21.
A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms.
Even as increasing number of engineering seats are going vacant every year, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Maharashtra government have given a nod to many private colleges to increase their intake capacity. About 800 seats will be added to colleges under Nagpur University this academic year, though around 7,000 seats were left vacant in the last academic year.
The NSW Teachers Federation and Unions NSW on Friday launched their Stop Tafe Cuts campaign, claiming plans to increase competition between public and private training providers for funds would see the deterioration of quality education.
The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely to enroll students in vocation-oriented classes tied to the local job market. Enrollments at those institutions fell 8.7% and 3.6% respectively.
In recent years, merit-based scholarships have surpassed those awarded based on financial need at both public and private colleges, according to a report released last week by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute.
In Tennessee, Berry College says, if you try to put up a billboard, you will be treated as if you were operating a college in the state. The college sued the Tennessee Higher Education Commission on Monday, charging it with illegal discrimination against out-of-state institutions and infringement on interstate commerce.
The race for that coveted post-graduate medical seat in Karnataka just got tougher. Two years ago, a PG seat in orthopedics in a prestigious private medical college in Bangalore cost Rs 1 crore. This year, it has touched Rs 2 crore. The price of an MD (Radiology) seat available for Rs 2 crore last year is likely to go up to Rs 2.75 crore this year.
The President of the Central University College and the newly elected Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Private Universities in Ghana, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has emphasised the significance of private universities in national development.
Another private university in Meghalaya, the Mahatma Gandhi University, is under the scanner of the state government after complaints were received about its functioning, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said today.
In a keen desire to make Uttarakhand an education hub and thereby allowing the mushrooming of private Universities, by giving them permission to open their campuses, the successive state governments have inadvertently made Dehra Dun, where most of these Universities are located a drug and booze capital.
A private Indian university has been barred from recruiting Ghanaian students for its distance learning programmes since it is not accredited in this country. The university is under a cloud back home with a federal probe likely into its affairs - particularly the awarding of an extraordinarily high number of degrees - and its chancellor-promoter is on the run.
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a list of private universities not recognised by HEC, warning students and their parents to ensure the status of the university or institute from the website of the commission before seeking admission.